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GIRL
Diana Evans
called Dee
since May 25th, 1980
terrorising inner-city Melbourne
consuming flat whites
producing words, hers and other people's
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Tuesday, September 18, 2001

What would I do without my internet acquaintances? Electronic conversations soothe me.

My college is full of rabid, homosexual-hating, Muslim-bashing, charismatic Catholics. They blessed (or consecrated, or something involving waving holy-water-bedaubed evergreen twigs aroung the place) the rooms that they are staying in. I had an image of some mystical force keeping me from entering a room. Sorry, can't do a linen change: I'm an instrument of the devil.

Imagine what that would do for my reputation.

gil's wonderful suggestions of going full, scary goth for breakfast aside, I do not want to antagonise these people. It's just not worth it. The amusement to trouble ratio is too small from such an enterprise.

I do wish I had a copy of the Spawn soundtrack, though. Just so I can crank up the third track. The one that starts with the rousing chorus of "Satan! Satan! Satan!". Dope, Faith No More and Snake River Conspiracy will have to do.

I go forth to pack. See you next Wednesday. Thanks, all. You're part of what keeps this Dee happy and shiny.

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Oh wow. There's a lot to be said for Canberra in the spring. It's about sights and smells and feelings. New flowers absolutely coating branches, and the fluff will start falling soon. Watching two peewees and a magpie in a twirling, angry dance, unsure who's winning, or even who's chasing who. Sweat on my top lip after shivering for so long.

The world is new and shiny. May I never lose this.

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I'm sure I've mentioned before my interest in conspiracies of the international intellectual. Illuminati - Bavarian and Discordian and such. Right? Well, remember: There are a few highly significant numbers to these organisations. One is 23 and another is 5 (2 + 3 = 5).

Watch closely: 11/9/2001 - 11 + 9 + 2 + 1 = 23. The article of NATO which allows the entire mob to go to war is Article 5.

This, for me, just goes to prove that if you look for them, the connections are everywhere.

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Monday, September 17, 2001

They interviewed my Honours supervisor on the news after the event. He's a specialist in strategy and diplomacy and stuff like that. He's also my mentor, and taught me most of my knowledge and cynicism about America and the world system in general. I just wish this event hadn't proved him right, and wasn't going to continue proving him right. Cynical I might be, but there's still an optimist streak in me that shrivels and dies a little more every time I see that footage again, or hear that they're going to bomb Afghanistan. Because that's a travesty of justice, and I run out of fingers when counting up reasons why bin Laden wasn't behind this attack.

Every conversation I have these days swings round to this. I'm almost sick of it. (And I hope Je's wrong, and I don't wake up tomorrow morning to find that there's been another attack. Please, let her premonition be wrong.)

How do you move on from talking about it? I guess you just do...

Some people are going to find their Irrational Licenses revoked if they're not careful.

Norma does some beautiful artwork. I've found inspiration for several minor characters in the Novel from her pictures, once I finally got to access them in the lab downstairs.

From Wednesday, I'll be away for a week. I'm going down to Melbourne, for the second time in my life. This time, I go to meet the Male's family in a real way. Not just the parents, but some extended relations. I also go to look at the city in a new light, as a prospective new home.

Who wants to move to bloody Melbourne, I ask you? But it seems likely that come 2003, it will be my place of residence. Better get used to it, I guess.

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